Category: Terry Hornbuckle

FORT WORTH – More than 12 years ago, Bishop Terry Hornbuckle was confronted about his womanizing by a group of clergy, a former minister of the bishop’s church said Thursday. Demetruis Carrier, 43, who was a member of Hornbuckle’s Agape Christian Fellowship in Arlington from 1990 to 1993, said he organized with three other ministers outside of the church whom Hornbuckle respected. Hornbuckle was convicted this week of sexually assaulting three women. Jurors deciding Hornbuckle’s punishment deliberated for about three hours Thursday before adjourning until Monday. Carrier said he and his wife had left the church about a month earlier.

This report contains frank sexual language. FORT WORTH — In the “free world,” the Rev. Terry Hornbuckle‘s drug of choice was methamphetamine. While awaiting trial in the Tarrant County Jail, however, a fellow inmate testified, Hornbuckle took whatever he could get his hands on. Jail inmate Russell Wayne Eason testified Wednesday that he traded Seroquel, an antipsychotic medication he had been prescribed, to Hornbuckle for items such as coffee and sweets. “I said, ‘These are 100 milligrams. They make you drowsy, woozy and disoriented,’” Eason said. “He said he had given them to some of his church members — he

In punishment phase, she says he drugged her, pressured her into sex FORT WORTH – A fourth woman testified that Arlington pastor Terry Hornbuckle drugged her and, as he did with a previous victim, used his status to persuade her to have sex. The woman’s testimony came during Wednesday’s punishment phase of Mr. Hornbuckle’s trial. Mr. Hornbuckle was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting three other women, two of them church members. The prosecution and the defense rested Wednesday after the testimony of Mr. Hornbuckle’s elderly mother, who asked the jury to be lenient. The jury could begin deliberating Mr. Hornbuckle’s

FORT WORTH – A Tarrant County jury on Tuesday convicted Arlington pastor Terry Hornbuckle on all counts of rape charges involving three young women, including two members of his church. The jury deliberated nearly 34 hours before reaching the verdict, and was expected to begin the punishment phase Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Hornbuckle is facing two to 20 years in prison, but he could also be eligible for probation. The prosecution spent six days building a case against Mr. Hornbuckle, founder of Agape Christian Fellowship church. The defense rested without calling a witness. Prosecutors said Mr. Hornbuckle used his position as

FORT WORTH – Jurors in pastor Terry Hornbuckle’s rape trial deliberated for a fourth full day Monday, but they still did not reach a verdict. After 28 hours of deliberation, there was no evidence that the jury was deadlocked, state district Judge Scott Wisch said. The jury sent at least 14 notes to the judge Monday, but most were about testimony or evidence connected to the second of three alleged victims. “We hate to be all this trouble,” Judge Wisch said, quoting the jury about the long wait. He described the jurors as calm and methodical. Also, they appear to

FORT WORTH — After 41/2 days of deliberations, the jury in the sexual assault trial of Arlington pastor Terry Hornbuckle continued laboring through the afternoon, periodically sending out notes requesting additional information. As of 5:15 p.m., jurors had sent out 14 notes related to evidence presented in the trial; five this morning and nine this afternoon. All but one of today’s notes concerned the accuser known only as “Jane Doe.” State District Judge Scott Wisch said the jurors appeared to be getting along and were “calm, quiet, professional and methodic.” As for the long deliberations, he said, “We’re here as

FORT WORTH — Jurors in Terry Hornbuckle’s sexual assault trial sent out a flurry of notes in about an hour Friday morning concerning two of the Arlington pastors’ accusers. It was the fourth day of deliberation in the trial, and jurors have spent about 16 hours so far trying to decide their verdicts on three charges. The first note Friday dealt with a conversation that the mother of Krystal Buchanan, one of the accusers, testified she had with football star Deion Sanders. Loretta Sheppard said Sanders called and asked her to “hold off” on acting after she learned of her